Thirty-eight TNT ant 18 HBX-3 charges weighing one, eight, and fifty pounds were fired at depths betweeen 500 and 14,000 ft; pressure-time data were measured directly...
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Measurements of the properties of shallow underwater explosions have been obtained in recent experiments with 0.82-kg SUS (signal underwater sound) charges at depths from 23.5 to...
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Experimental measurements are reported in this article for the source levels of 0.82-kg signals underwater sound (SUS) charges detonated at nominal depths of 18.3, 91, and...
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Report for the Naval Surface Warfare Center, , Silver Spring, MD. NAVSWC-TR-90-532
This report summarizes observations of the underwater shocks produced during the explosive removal of a hydrocarbon production platform from the Gulf of Mexico. Shock pressure measurements...
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A new method is proposed for predicting the maximum ranges to which an underwater explosion will injure fish that have gas-filled swimbladders. In this study the...
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This report updates, and therefore, supersedes Section B (Explosions in Water) of an earlier report, NOLTR 65-218. The tables, charts, and graphs contained herein show the...
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The manner in which underwater explosions differ from low-amplitude point sources of sound is considered theoretically, especially effects due to cavitation near the sea surface. Some...
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Experimental observations of peak pressure, decay constant, and energy flux for TNT and pentolite are presented to ranges (in feet) defined by R = 2000W x...
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This investigation arose from a conflict between different interests involved in the exploitation of the marine resources of California. Seismographic exploration for submarine oil had been...
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Underwater explosions have been studied intensively in the United States since 1941 [e.g., R. H. Cole, Underwater Explosions (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1945), pp. 3–13]....
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